OpenHeartLPN

I live in Idaho and have not heard of this. Who told you that Idaho has moved to BSN only? The state board of nursing recognizes many associate degree programs, even some of which that are not accredited. Now if you are referring to the word that most hospitals are only going to be hiring BSNs, that would be true in my opinion from what I have heard. There are still many other places for AS degree nurses to work though.

If you can't apply your nursing skills yet, get a good all-in-one book and read a chapter for fun every now and then.

The student area is grey, but in an emergency it oxygen does not have to be ordered to give. An order should be obtained after patient is stabilized ASAP. To be safe don't go over 2L to prevent harm to COPD patients. There are lots of other factors though ie. does the patient have heart problems, what is patients norm? I don't know your schools policies but I would bet you did the right thing even by their standards if he had oxygen earlier he probably still had an order for it *(did you check after the fact?) I would qualify 84% as an emergency.

Wow! Since when did being a non smoker make you a better nurse? I smoke, but I do not do it before or during my shift, because my patients come first. Aside from all the other great points made by other posters, I have met some horrible nurses that do not smoke. How about asking for a mandate to have all nurses that smoke outside of their profession be fired while you are at it. If you want into nursing school get in on your own merit and stop blaming (ooooo) smokers (ooooo) that are better qualified than you about not getting in. BTW my instructors knew I smoked before I was accepted, but they saw in me someone that would make a great nurse. So do you think that you know more about nursing than they do? Get off of your high horse and mind your own business.

There is an IV certification for LPNs, it was part of my nursing program. Aside from that I believe different states have different laws regarding IV maintenance.

Send it all together!!! Do your background check fingerprints a couple weeks prior to graduation if allowed by your board, the application, the picture, and the payment. Stick it all in one big envelope do not fold envelope and send it to them. Just keep it all together so when they say they got it you know they got it all.

In the first place I kind of thought I made it clear I was refering to drugs that are tested for in a drug screen. Second even if it is not tested for in a drug screen is still no reason to hide it. Any potentially mind-altering/debilitating drugs should be reported to those that are responsible for your actions. Privacy is a not an issue here. People have the right to privacy, but not when it potentially threatens another person. Someone with a fatal STD has the right not to tell anyone about the disease, until they decide to have sex that may or may not transmit the disease to another person. They are required to divulge this information because it MAY harm someone. I want to be clear that I do not think anyone with a problem should just be written off, but those that may have to suffer consequences should be allowed to make a choice as to whether or not they want to take that chance. No we should not have to ask our CNAs everyday if they are on prescription drugs, we simply should have CNAs that have enough ethics to tell us when they are on a drug that can potential to harm our patients. A person that lies and cheats on a drug screen is not a person that has these standards. As nurses we should also be aware of signs of mind-altering/debilitating drug use.

Backatit2 the op is a CNA and if you are as well that is a horrible statement to make. The nurse in charge of CNAs while they work are responsible for them. It is not right to endanger a nurse's license. I truly am sorry that you take a drug that probably will not do anything, but drug screening is in place for a reason and it also tests for legal drugs. It is not ok to use even legally prescribed drugs during patient care without having it approved by those that are responsible for your actions. I truly hope you are not a CNA, because if that was the job you had when a doctor told you to cheat the test it was probably someone else's license he was risking and not his own. This is unethical behavior that should not be allowed in patient care.

I agree with PAERRN20, and if you take medication that may set off an alarm from on a drug test, you need to be forthcoming with it.

You can't schedule a test without an ATT. It is attached to the email with the authorization password you used to schedule your test. Good Luck

Just took the NCLEX-PN today, had 85 questions, and got the Good PVT pop-up!!!

Personal Experience HELL NO! Our LPN program actually has more nursing credits and clinical hours than the RN program at our school (pretty weird I know). My state opened a new community college and used the LPN model from the local university and the ASRN model from a local college. I just happened to get accepted into the LPN before the RN so I started there. Just graduated and moving to the 4 year BSN at the university next semester. That being said I am sure it depends on the school.

"prereq only" school name: boise state university adn/asn, bsn, or msn and or accelerated: bsn city:boise state: id waitlist, yes or no: no tests, hesi, teas, etc: none lowest gpa possible: all pre-reqs gpa average of 3.0 in math/science prereqs and c or better in other prereqs # of classes and list of prerequisites needed: http://nursing.boisestate.edu/programs/docs/admission%20criteria.pdf amount of general edit credits: 63- 41 in first 3 semesters the rest throughout the 8 semesters spots available: about 60 twice a year usual # of applicants: about 100-200 i'm told lowest gpa accepted last year for admittance: i think 3.4 in gpa prereqs (2 a&p, chem, math) tuition (needs to be added i think)- also 10 seats reserved for lpn's that meet minimum 3.0 average in science and math classes and c in other prereqs. best part is that if you get an a in a&ps, chem, and math you are basically gaurunteed a spot (usually even if you get a b in one class, 2 bs and you are competing) with a c in the rest of the required courses.

Don't fill your head with useless information. If you really want to bone up for a class thats 8 months away: get the syllabus from the teacher now, buy the book, and read his first couple months of assignments. This way you don't put useless information into your head, and you will be prepared for what you will actually be tested on. That being said don't go too far into his course, it's better to know the first 2 tests like the back of your hand, than to only be able to remember a bit about all of them. If you get an awesome grades for the first few parts you can cruise through the rest with little worry.

Social Worker (Need Master's but grades not too important) Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy Respiratory Therapist Radiologist Physician's Assistant (Probably need lots more chemistry) That is it off the top of my head.

OK, now you have quoted part of a paragraph of mine and pulled it out of its context to make your point. Pain killers are mind altering and can affect decision making and can slow reaction time. You have honestly made me angry now. Do you think someone taking medicinal marijuanna or mushrooms should be able to practice nursing while under the influence of them. Oh but you said you are fine, how bout you let the people who may be responsible for the mistakes you may make be the judge of that. You have no right to risk someone else's hard earned license to obtain yours. Maybe a blind man should be aloud to drive a taxi-cab because its no one elses business he is blind. Why don't we force telemarketing companies to hire def mutes, because the persons problem is none of their business. These are extreme cases, but it speaks to the fact that personal problems DO MATTER. I am sorry you have a disabling problem I really am, but you have a bigger problem and that is the lack of moral sense to know that not telling your instructors is WRONG.

I truly do wish you the best, I am merely trying to convey to you the legal consequences that may happen to you or those that employ you. If you make an honest mistake that anyone could have made, the medication will be blamed first. Whether the meds were the cause or not they will be blamed and make it that much easier for a lawsuit. I truly understand that you need the meds, and I do hope you can make a good nurse, but everyone that takes a risk employing and training you deserves to know the risk of being sued as you do. Just because you are willing to take the chance of being sued, doesn't mean the people training you will. They deserve the chance to make that choice for themselves, as a student you work under your instructors license. To knowingly force someone to take that chance is dishonest and wrong. I truly wish you the best and hope that you can find a school and place of employment that will be empathetic with your circumstance. Good Luck and Best Wishes.

You really need to disclose the use of these drugs. However, there is a down side. Narcotics are a mind altering drug, you cannot take patient's lives into your hands while taking them. I was taking pain meds after I had a tooth removed and while I was on the narcotic i could not take part in clinical. I could only miss 1 day and had to bear through it after that. Even though you have a prescription being under the influence of a narcotic while driving is illegal because it is mind altering and is considered a DUI. You cannot take care of patients while on these drugs. You may have to wait on nursing school until you no longer need these drugs or find another effective way of managing pain. I know it sucks, but if anything bad happens the drugs will be blamed, your school will lose its clinical rights, and someone could get hurt. Even if it doesn't have a negative effect on you, no school or hospital would risk being sued for taking this risk and you probably wouldn't want that risk either. Good Luck

I thought that since HIV was a virus, there is no real cure. I'm sure that they could create a vaccine eventually, as well as something to control the diseases progression. God Willing I am Wrong

How hard A&P is, absolutely, 100%, depends on your professor.

If you truly don't mind starting nursing over, IMO it is best to give the next school your transcripts. Make a note on your application that you failed a single class for personal reasons and if they have any questions about it to call you. If they need more information (unlikely) tell them you would like to speak to them about it in-person, make the interview and explain your situation. Be extremely careful here, if you blame your prof., even if it is truly their fault. You have a greater chance of not being accepted if you do. IMO you should simply state you had a personal problem that affected your grade (Nobody wants to take someone that may put their job in danger with a history of complaints of unfair treatment). Best case scenario- your new program will sympathize with you, you will have your foot in the door, and they may even give you the opportunity to test out of some classes. Middle case scenario- you don't get any empathy, but you still are recognized more than other applicants, and have a slim chance of testing through classes. Worst case scenario- you don't get looked at all. Good Luck!

I have to make the leap and ask. Do your applications look like your post? You did use some punctuation, so I have to figure you were trying. Your grammar is horrible. I was once in charge of hiring people and your application would be filed under T if it looked half as bad. If you just were not trying it would be one thing, but your post has some punctuation. This makes me think that you don't know how important it is to be well written. You have commas where you don't need them and none when you do. You have poorly made sentences, spelling errors, and your entire post is in caps. I know that some people don't put effort into online posts and that is okay. It appears to me that you did put some effort in though. If I am wrong please do disregard me and feel free to hate me. Perhaps no one has ever thought this was possibility and didn't feel it necessary or too rude to tell you. The person that hires you has to trust you to pay attention to life saving details. The only thing that makes you different than every other nurse out there is your resume. Why take the person who has one error, when you can have a person that has none. If a person makes just one error on a resume that he/she has had forever to make, can I trust that person not to make an error when someones life is on the line in seconds? If your resume, charting, or english capabilities look anything like your post, I wouldn't trust you to give a Tylenol to my kids, and thats what an employer would say as well. You may be the best nurse in the world, but before you are hired, to an employer you are a piece of paper. Make that paper perfect, if you can't take a class so that you can.

Some schools are set up as step programs whereas after your first year you are qualified to take NCLEX-PN other programs are straight to RN. Ask your instructors.

I did answer the ops question "It doesn't matter" how often a program or agency drug tests. That is the best answer for his question, because there is no answer to it. The point of a random drug test is that its random and no one knows when the next will be. I also stated that perhaps he was asking because maybe he thinks someone else does need to be tested and answered that possibility as well. If the op doesn't want people to draw conclusions, he needs to be more clear, especially when asking a question that only has the broad answer I gave. Anyone that says my program tests only once or twice, is making an assumption. they are called "Random Drug Tests" for a reason. A program will test as often as it seems fit. I stand firmly behind my answer, if a program tests a hundred times, "If you don't do drugs, it doesn't matter."

Don't do drugs and it won't matter. If you are asking because someone else needs to be tested that you train with then talk to your advisor and I am sure they will have a test. Sorry if this sounds blunt, but if you are afraid of a drug test you are going into the wrong profession. This is just sound advice directed at everyone who reads this thread. Even the longest lasting drug that can remain in your system (THC from pot), is out in around 30 days. If you are get into a nursing course chances are you knew this was the field you were going into well before that. Before I get flamed by any drug users there is no such thing as accidents when it comes to this topic. Many people have pasts that they can try to fix, but using is not an accident. Many people have made mistakes in their past, some pay some don't. This reply is directed at the present, not the past, as almost any drug test will show clean after just 30 or so days. Just don't do drugs.